[mythtv-users] backends without tuners (was Re: Transcoding is being done on frontends, not backend)

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Fri Jan 9 17:41:46 UTC 2009


On Fri, January 9, 2009 9:14 am, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/08/2009 09:14 PM, Krzysztof Adamski wrote:
>> The Debian-media package installs the frontend without backend without
>> any problems.
>> The only thing that is does wrong is that it forces mysql server to be
>> installed on a frontend only machine.
>
> And it doesn't allow proper configuration of the host due to the lack of
> having mythtv-setup (which is probably what you're referring to in the
> second part).

I'm still not clear on what mythtv-setup does that the General Settings
page in the frontend doesn't do.  In fact, I've found that changing
database settings in mythtv-setup has no effect on where the frontend
looks for its database, but changing them on the General Settings page
does.





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